Macmillan Support Worker

7 months ago

Hackney, United Kingdom FAMILY ACTION Full time

**Job title**:Macmillan Support Worker / Social Prescriber

**Service**:Macmillan Social Prescribers Service

**Location**: Hackney, London

**Hours**:30 hours per week (part-time)

**Salary**:£33,968 FTE per annum, including the Inner London Weighting

(£27,541.62 per annum for part-time, 30 hours per week)

**Contract type**: Temporary Contract for 24 months

**Are you a self-motivated, innovative team player, who is solution focused and passionate about making a difference? Do you have an excellent track record of sustaining and delivering excellent operational services? If so, we want to hear from you. Working in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, we aim to develop interventions for people with cancer in the area and support the delivery of impeccable personalised care to everyone diagnosed with cancer.**

This is a very exciting time to be involved with Social Prescribing. It has been identified as a key component of NHS England’s Universal Personalised Care objective contained within their Long-Term Plan, as well as London’s Health Inequalities Strategy for healthy communities published by The Mayor’s Office in 2018. Both strategies recognise the influence of social, emotional, economic and cultural factors on health and well-being and the importance of community connections to improving health and wellbeing, self-care and self-management of long-term conditions.

Family Action is proud to be the provider of the existing local Social Prescribing Service commissioned within City & Hackney, delivering since 2014, which recently won “Best Larger Project” at the inaugural Social Prescribing Awards 2019. We are now delighted to be expanding the provision through a partnership with and funding provided by Macmillan Cancer Support. As such, successful applicants will become a Macmillan professionals: Macmillan Professionals / Macmillan Cancer Support.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- You will work as part of a Primary Care Network Multi-Disciplinary Healthcare Team, providing 1:1 personalised support.
- You will provide care planning to individuals, utilising a holistic, systematic and strength-based approach, to help identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing and work together to co-produce a wellbeing plan to address these needs.
- You will have excellent holistic assessment skills and interpersonal and communication skills that enable you to build trusting relationships which support individuals feel empowered with their wellbeing.
- You will forge strong links with local Voluntary, Community and Social enterprises organisations, community and neighbourhood networks, building on what is already available, to create a menu of community groups and assets to connect individuals to as part of their wellbeing plan.
- You must be a good listener and have experience of working positively with individuals facing complex, social and emotional challenges that impacts on their wellbeing.
- You will have an understanding of the impact of cancer is preferable but not essential. Being creative as well as having a solution focused attitude to removing barriers to health and wellbeing is essential.

**Main Requirements**:

- Professional Health/Social Care/Mental health qualification to at least Degree level; and a genuine commitment to continuing professional development.
- Proven experience in use of different therapeutic approaches such as Motivational Interviewing techniques, CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, active listening and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent holistic assessment as well as consultation skills and experience of providing empowering support to adults in a planned and structured way, to improve health, recovery and well-being outcomes.
- Comprehensive understanding of the social and emotional determinants to health, such as loneliness, depression and anxiety. Knowledge of long-term health conditions and strategies to improve health and wellbeing.
- Working knowledge of the welfare benefits systems, housing systems and welfare grants in order to quickly sign post service users.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team, with confident collaborative relationship building, communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent knowledge of the City & Hackney area and community resources. Proven skills in collating information and data on community resources and organising these in up-to-date and accessible formats for a range of different service users from various communities.

**To learn more about the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification on the Family Action "Current Vacancies" page - **_**(Family Action - Get Involved - Work for us - Current Vacancies - Macmillan Support Worker (Macmillan Social Prescriber)**_

**Benefits**
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days (pro rata) plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters ha

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